Was looking at some larger ones but couldn’t pass on this!
Dude. You ripped him off!!! The price tag clearly says double what you paid! You’re basically stealing from this shop owner. Pawn shop profit margins are razor thin!
Submitted 1 day ago by thouartfrugal@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Was looking at some larger ones but couldn’t pass on this!
Dude. You ripped him off!!! The price tag clearly says double what you paid! You’re basically stealing from this shop owner. Pawn shop profit margins are razor thin!
This is satire, right?
…is it not obvious? Is that why people are downvoting the joke?
Very nice! My brother pulled something similar out of some old news van in a junkyard. He was there looking for taillights and came across it and pooped his pants
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
Soooo what are we looking at?
v1605@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Looks similar to a Sony PVM-8045Q, so a nice portable crt.
thouartfrugal@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Right you are; this one’s a PVM-8043MD. Looks like it lacks the 16:9 mode, manual degauss and tally light. I believe MD signifies “medical”; removed the cover and there is some shielding around the deflection yoke.
Thank you for mentioning that model number. That page has some good troubleshooting info relevant to the white balance problem I’m seeing with this one. Will post something nice if I can fix it!
Thassodar@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
I see a Sony label so…maybe a PS1 dev kit?
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
Pretty sure it’s a closed loop surveillance CRT TV used in security rooms of yesteryear. You can even see a small handle at the front meant to fit inside a rack for an array of them.
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